Syllabus:

Sustainable architectural production, 20 credits

The course is discontinued from 2023-12-20

Swedish name: Hållbar arkitektonisk produktion

This syllabus is valid: 2011-09-05 and until further notice

Course code: 5AR510

Credit points: 20

Education level: Second cycle

Main Field of Study and progress level: Architecture: Second cycle, has second-cycle course/s as entry requirements

Grading scale: Pass, Fail

Responsible department: Umeå School of Architecture

Required Knowledge

To qualify for this course the following courses (or comparable courses) are required:
5ar501 Advanced Architectural Design (6 hp); 5ar500 Advanced Constructions and Processes of Architectural Design (20 hp); 5ar502 Technology of Construction and Optimization (8 hp); 5ar503 Technology of Material and Resources (4 hp); 5ar404 Sustainable Architectural Concepts and Systems (20 hp); 5ar405 Theory of Communication (2 hp)

Proficiency in English equivalent to Swedish upper Secondary course English A/5.
Where the language of instruction is Swedish, applicants must prove proficiency in Swedish to the level required for basic eligibility for higher studies.

Literature

Valid from: 2013 week 40

Breaking Through Concrete : Building an Urban Farm Revival
Berkeley : University of California Press : 2011 :

The Metapolis dictionary of advanced architecture : city, technology and society in the information age
Gausa Manuel, Cros Susanna
Barcelona : Actar : 2003 : 688 s. :
ISBN: 84-95951-22-3 (hd.bd.)
Mandatory
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My green city : back to nature with attitude and style
Klanten Robert., Ehmann Sven., Bolhöfer Kitty.
Berlin : Gestalten : 2011. : 235 p. :
ISBN: 978-3-89955-334-5
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Sinha Sumita
Architecture for rapid change and scarce resources
London : Routledge : 2012 : xx, 300 p. :
ISBN: 978-1-84971-115-9 (hbk.) :
Mandatory
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Stein Carl J.
Greening modernism : preservation, sustainability, and the modern movement
1. ed. : New York : W.W. Norton & Co. : cop. 2010 : 296 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-393-73283-2 (hardcover)
Mandatory
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Sternfeld Joel
Sweet earth : experimental utopias in America
Göttingen : Steidl : 2006 : 136 s. :
ISBN: 3-86521-124-0 (hbk.) :
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Tafuri Manfredo
The sphere and the labyrinth : avant-gardes and architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press : cop. 1987 : 382 s. :
ISBN: 0-262-20061-9 ;
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Urban Composition : Designing Community through Urban Design
Princeton Architectural Press : 2011 :

Urban Florian.
Tower and slab : histories of global mass housing
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge : 2012. : xii, 208 p. :
ISBN: 9780415676281 (hardback : alk. paper)
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Wall Alex
Victor Gruen : from urban shop to new city
Barcelona : Actar : 2005 : 267 s. :
ISBN: 84-95951-87-8
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